Member Highlights

Shenila Khoja-Moolji received the 2019 Michael Harrington Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for her book and community service work. The book traces the shifting constitution of Muslim girlhood in the context of colonial India and Pakistan. A free electronic version is available here​.

Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor of Urdu at the University of Washington, published "Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia." This book traces the formation of an Urdu cosmopolis in colonial South Asia.

Julie Flowerday's new journal article, "Kashmir Dispute and 19th Century British-Chinese Stalemate over Hunza—Kanjut" in the Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research addresses the notion of modern state and the unresolved pre-partition struggle between Britain and China over a political entity in the Karakoram Mountains. Check it

A. Azfar Moin's article on "The Millennial and Saintly Sovereignty of Emperor Shah Jahan According to a Court Sufi" was recently published in the book, The Empires of the Near East and India (edited by Hani Khafipour).

Dr. Iqbal Akhtar, Director of Western Indian Ocean Studies at FIU and AIPS Trustee, will be a Fulbright scholar in Pakistan for spring term of 2020. He will teach a course on comparative historiography at UMT in Lahore and continue to do research in Islamabad. His grant is focused on capacity building of Pakistani academics to write for a global audience, apply for international grants, develop US-Pakistani academic relationships, and to develop a more rigorous perspective of Pakistan's history in its humanities disciplines.

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